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SCRAP METAL

RETURNED BY JAPANESE AT RABAUL bottle tops and razor blades IN BOMBS. AUSTRALIAN WOMAN’ SSTORY. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 12.40 p.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Australian beer bottle tops, used razor blades, scrap iron, and old nails were enclosed in the first bombs dropped by the Japanese on Raboul, according to a story told by a woman whose husband is employed at Rabaul. She added that a male evacuee has a piece of scrap iron from one bomb with the words: “Thank you, Mr Menzies, scratched on it. A steward on one boat doing the regular run to Rabaul from Australia kept the botte tops and sold them to the Japanese. She was in Rabaul when the raid began. Chinese merchants just walked out and left their businesses, and after the first raid people lived in air raid shelters most of the time, till they were evacuated.

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Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19420204.2.28

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Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 February 1942, Page 4

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Tapeke kupu
151

SCRAP METAL Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 February 1942, Page 4

SCRAP METAL Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 February 1942, Page 4

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